Sached books (7 risultati)

208 x 150 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (viii) + 279, incl. index; photographs and diagrams. Ex-library copy. Wrappers a little rubbed; tape reinforcing to inner wraps.; portion cut from half-title; ink stamps to prelims., fore-edge and final blank. Good. "Using fascinating and carefully documented case-study material, this book raises vital questions about literacy and illiteracy, and about adult education. Above all, it questions the efficacy of any literacy programme which fails to acknowledge the many ways in which uneducated and so-called 'illiterate' people already use reading, writing and numeracy in their everyday lives. Through the case studies we are taken into the homes and workplaces of Black South Africans with little or no formal schooling, from farm workers to taxi drivers and factory workers to boarding school maids. Many of these people would be classed among South Africa's estimated 15 million illiterates; yet the case studies illustrate how they regularly use literacy in informal, unacknowledged ways at work, at home and in the community. . The individual case studies' message is clear: People's varied and complicated experience, needs and aspirations need to be recognised and acknowledged through a range of different kinds of literacy and educational provision which is sensitive to local factors." - Janet Maybin, The Open University, Milton Keynes.…

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, 2nd impression [1993], small 4to: 88pp., very richly illustrated, plans, afterword, credits, bibliography, advertisement.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by previous owner. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condizione: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st edition. Mayibuye History and Literature series no.51. Spine a little faded; text clean; binding tight.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. the wraps are bit worn and shelf rubbed. creasing. damp marked. minor stain marks. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.O.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. As pictured a first edition, second printing a very good condition soft cover , gently gently read clean , 101 pages , Chris Hani, Secretary General of the South African Communist Party and a public figure loved and respected throughout the country, was assassinated outside his home. This book gives a moving account of a life devoted to the poor and disenfranchised. …

orig.wrappers. 21x13cm, 101 pp., Edited by Ivan Vladislavic. Biography of the Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, assassinated on 10 April 1993. Minor rubbing. Label inside front cover. VG. Textual photo illustrations. (illustratore).